Department of Chemistry and Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A.
Abstract:
Time-resolved EPR studies were done on broken spinach chloroplasts under reducing conditions at low temperature (10 K). A dramatic dependence of signal dynamics and lineshape in the g 2.00 region on the reduction state of Photosystem I is demonstrated. Computer simulations of the spin-polarized lineshapes obtained in this work suggest that the primary electron acceptor in Photosystem I, a species known as A1, could be a chlorophyll a dimer.